Uninstalled within seconds. I'm trialling Hyperion launcher now, which seems pretty crisp.
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Plug for open source launchers like Lawnchair
https://lawnchair.app/
I just checked out the website and I'm having a hard time understanding what the point of it is. I've never installed any sort of custom launcher, so maybe I'm missing out, but the application advertises itself on being very similar to the regular pixel launcher, not needing root access, and nothing else. Even in the FAQ I only see that it supports some plugin that upgrades some widget, unless you have root where it supports whatever you can do with the "recents api". Neither of those seem remotely worth it. So what does it actually do?
I haven't used the pixel launcher in ages, but last time I did, you could not remove the "search bar". That alone justifies a different launcher to me.
You can certainly do that now. Main reason I went with it.
It replaces the launcher ("desktop") of your phone with something else. Maybe something faster, or using less resources, or something you can customize to your taste.
The main thing for me, it gets google out of the picture. No AI, no google search bar, etc.
It also allows me to manage apps in the app drawer. I can hide any stock apps, and put less commonly uses apps in to folders (I miss tabs on Nova). Instead of scrolling through pages of home screen, I swipe up and can see all my common apps at once, no scrolling. The home screen now has free space for widgets.
By default it does look similar. However it has customization options comparable to Nova, or at least I was able to easily replicate how I'd configured it.
Sure, but what are those? Maybe I'm the issue, but the website seems to be made for people who are already intimately familiar with the possibilities of a custom launcher, because they're hardly listed anywhere, there's no list of features or anything.
Well, there is one list, but it's
And the wiki is just from the dev side, which is interesting, but doesn't provide the proper info. I'm sure it's cool if so many people here like it, but the website's doing a poor job at showing that off.
Edit: Basically it seems to me like the selling points of most Android forks, which are generally "We're slightly worse in some areas, but generally have feature-parity, possibly slightly better customization/settings, and you're free of Google spyware" which is admittedly a selling point, but here you don't even get rid of spyware if you're on regular Android, and if you are already on a fork, then why bother?
You can change the icon pack, font, grid size, colours, etc all to your preference.
I switched to Lawnchair when Google starting messing with the search bar. They added features right where my thumb would press to use the search bar, so I was constantly opening an AI search that I did not want. Lawnchair let me stick with a launcher I liked and was used to, but gave me the customizability to get rid of bullshit like that.
And I generally don't like change, and I certainly don't want to have to do any work to facilitate a change that I don't like in the first place, but Lawnchair was incredibly easy to set up and go. Runs basically like an app, you change your default launcher to Lawnchair (and I assume this step is similar for any launcher you'd use), and bam, runs on top of everything and that's that. Simplicity is key for a simple guy like me.